Why you may retire in poverty

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/07/us-column-miller-poverty-idUSBRE8760VW20120807

Today's seniors are more affluent than the general population. But the generations that follow them - starting with the baby boom generation - will not be as fortunate. Various factors are pointing toward a new crisis of poverty among lower- and middle-class seniors in the years ahead.